Milkman delivers

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 7, 2011 -> 10:40 AM) I just really don't get this from a baseball perspective. The White Sox of the past 3-4 seasons have historically stunk against left-handers. Lastings had a .926 OPS against them last season, with a near .800 career mark in 500 at bats vs lefties. He was exactly what this team has craved and needed for quite some time off the bench, a lefty killer who can sub in in the outfield and at DH. It's just quite silly to release him in order to keep Brent freaking Lillibridge. OR all-in and sack up and release Teahen's worthless ass. There could be another story behind this, but who knows. All I know is that it's another blow to my already waning faith in the 2011 team.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 7, 2011 -> 10:31 AM) So can we expect anything out of Jeff Gray? Better or worse than Senor Pena? He's probably going to suck. This is based on the facts that he's from our system and that he will now pitch in our bullpen.

Wow, talk about giving a guy a chance. I'm sure Humber, Lillibridge, Teahen, and any number of other terrible relievers will get ample opportunities to piss and s*** all over themselves without being DFA'd. Faith dwindling even more.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 07:51 PM) He's been doing it for at least as long as he's been here and with as fragile as he's been, he would've got hurt in this area already if this was a legit concern. Ugh, don't say something like that and tempt fate.

Always great to get a win, even under such poor circumstances. This pitching really needs to come together and we'll be fine.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) or silly remarks like... That is based in fact. I'm not completely sure about ture Tigers, but the Twins ALWAYS have a better record against those teams. Silly, my ass.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 01:58 PM) While I agree that it's about three months too early to give up on the season, Milk's complaint about this team's historical inability to get out of the gate being a problem is a very fair one. And I'll add that this team's historical inability to play competitively in August and September has cost us multiple playoff appearances. So, yeah, there is some justification for "here we go again" impatience right now. Thank you. And just to rub salt into the wound, they manage to score no runs with no outs and men on first and third. Vintage...

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) The things that we have seen thus far this year was what cost them last year. Poor Fundamentals Being shut down by bullpens Questionable bullpen work. But instead of discussing this, we should all keep making sarcastic remarks such as: QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:32 PM) BUT DUDE WE ARE 0-1 AGAINST THE ROYALS HAVING LOST IN EXTRAS JUST LAST NIGHT. SEASON OVER. or QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:37 PM) this.team.is.dead.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:19 PM) I'm going to trust the medical professionals that are actually around the scenario that are saying 5-10 days. And considering it was laparoscopic, I'm going to say assuming that it didn't rupture. This just in! Minnesota and Detroit will lose games to Cleveland and Kansas City too! And the Sox still have 15 and 17 games left against those two. There are still 5 months of baseball left after April. I'd be willing to bet that they don't lose as many to them as the Sox do, though.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 11:58 AM) No sh*t!!!! We're not even a week in and people are slitting their wrists already? Although, that said: That does always seem to be the case, doesn't it? But sorry, I don't get out the razors until around the ASB. Yes, always. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) This just in! While we're playing .500 ball against the eventual 4th and 5th place teams in the Central, we are failing to gain good ground over Detroit and Minnesota. When we start playing good teams we know Detroit and Minnesota will beat up on these same 4th and 5th place teams during that stretch. Games still count in April. It's something people never seem to understand or at least admit. When we end up losing the division by a few games, which we often do, the difference could have been made up early in the season. It's a reason why the Sunday lineups are a terrible idea. It's always "it's just one game" or "every team has a stretch like this" or "every team has an opponent they can't ever seem to beat", but we do it far too often. And again, I can't stand the fact that (and obviously this isn't necessarily the case this season) we always have one aspect of the team that underachieves miserably and likely costs us the division. We'll have a great offense one year, but the pitching will suck. We'll have great starting pitching, but the bullpen will blow. We'll have a great bullpen, but the offense can't score on anything other than a homer. Of course it's too early in the season to say that this will happen again, but it happens so often that even the slightest hint of it makes me wary. All I do know for sure is that this pitching staff needs to get its s*** together. Between the starters and bullpen, they've got to be making somewhere between $70 and $80 million dollars.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 11:46 AM) wow i figured you would have seen that movie already. I also loved it, I saw it in the theatre Nope, never really even heard of it. QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:35 PM) You're welcome. And I definitely like it better than Inception. Oh, it was you? My bad, and thanks.

QUOTE (onedude @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 11:26 AM) Wow really?...some people have no patience. There is still 98% of the season left. The sox will more than likely have a stretch or two worse than these last "2 GAMES" It's been more than these two games. They gave up 10 in the opener and the bullpen has been terrible. The only thing that's keeping me off of the ledge is the fact that pitching is down throughout the league. I never jumped off of a ledge. I just said that all of the extra optimism I had is dwindling quickly. It's just looking like every other year where we have either pitching or offense, but neither at the same time.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 10:06 AM) Same here. I hate our bullpen and Ozzie. It's just that everything seems to have gone downhill since they went up 14-0 in the first game. I went into the season really expecting something special (for a huge change), now I'm back to thinking this is just going to be another disappointing year.

I watched Dark City last night. I believe it was on the recommendation of qwerty. It was great and I might have liked it more than Inception. I also saw Bang the Drum Slowly. It was really good, but I enjoyed it less.

Man, I've gradually lost more and more faith in this team and the idea that this is our year everyday since opening day. I know, weird.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) Hafner breaking his bat and flying out to the track made me raise an eyebrow. Is the ball juiced? Or the player.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 02:04 AM) bryan danielson the wrestling world misses you oh memories when you were the greatest wrestler on the planet... i remember when i saw you live at ted petty in highland indiana and almost jizzed in my pants when the finals ended up being you vs samoa joe vs aj styles, the 3 best wrestlers out there.... and now they take your match, the match i was looking most forward to esp after a real good match on raw, off of wrestlemania due to time constraints. I boycotted WM because of this and really hope Bryan quits the wwe and goes back to the indys where he can be used properly and once again be the greatest wrestler out there 2nd_city has a boyfriend!

If the movie is being made in the near future, you can bet your sweet ass that Seth Rogen WILL be in it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 09:10 AM) Hahha, well from what I remember atleast one of them was hot, but she only spoke Spanish and I had no idea what she was saying, so we made out at the club and I ended up leaving her to find my friend since it was 5am and we needed to go back to the hostel at some point. It was probably, "no mister, please stop trying to make out with me."

QUOTE (The Critic @ Apr 2, 2011 -> 06:00 PM) I have to wonder at this point if Sting doesn't just get some kind of kick out of being the only "big name" not to work for Vince? I think I'd have jobbed to Mae Young at Mania rather than work in that clusterf*** they're operating in Orlando. I think that's what it probably is.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 2, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) You know you will see this. Ozzie likes to rest his regulars especially early in the season so they are fresh later in the season. I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying that you know he likes to do it and will continue to do it. He's said some things over the offseason that might show that he's actually adapting. If so, he only needs to have one guy start on Tuesday, another on Wednesday, etc.

Ozzie has to have learned his lesson by now. We can't afford to throw games away, even this early in the season, by putting a lot of the bench guys in all at once. It's fine to scatter guys in during the week, but there should never be more than one (two on occasion) bench guy starting unless there are injuries, we've clinched, or we've been eliminated.

Like people have said, it's a bit too early to consider this. One thing I can say for sure, though, is that Quentin is the wildcard in this lineup. The offense will be pretty damn good regardless of what he does, but it will be elite if he has a good year. I feel like the only real disappointment offensively this year will be AJ. He's probably going to be the guy killing rallies regularly this season and overall just being the one that gives everybody that sinking feeling when he's coming to the plate.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 1, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Thanks for the kind words.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 2, 2011 -> 09:43 AM) Ha, what sucks is that I really thought I made a good point. I even felt good that, no matter what, the Sox would still be in first tonight.